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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.How Peaceful Arts help in War[17]
II.Gunpowder and its Modern Equivalents[27]
III.Radium in War[39]
IV.A Good Servant, though a Bad Master[49]
V.Mines, Submarine and Subterranean[61]
VI.Military Bridges[75]
VII.What Guns are made of[92]
VIII.More about Guns[108]
IX.The Guns they use in the Navy[120]
X.Shells and how they are made[135]
XI.What Shells are made of[146]
XII.Measuring the Velocity of a Shell[159]
XIII.Some Adjuncts in the Engine Room[164]
XIV.Engines of War[169]
XV.Destroyers[184]
XVI.Battleships[191]
XVII.How a Warship is Built[202]
XVIII.The Torpedo[215]
XIX.What a Submarine is like[223]
XX.The Story of Wireless Telegraphy[240]
XXI.Wireless Telegraphy in War[252]
XXII.Military Telegraphy[264]
XXIII.How War Inventions Grow[276]
XXIV.Aeroplanes[284]
XXV.The Aerial Lifeboat[297]
Index[313]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A Tank[Frontispiece]
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Machine-gun versus Rifle[32]
An Italian Mine-layer[64]
An Incident at Loos[80]
An 18-pounder in Action[96]
A German Automatic Pistol[112]
Bomb Throwing[136]
Bomb-throwers at Work[160]
The Tripod Mast[208]
Listening for the Enemy[248]
Diagram showing the principle by which the Aerials are connected to the Apparatus[251]
The Parent of the Tank[280]
The "Guardian Angel" Parachute[304]